Solar System
What Planet do we live on?
Earth
Like other objects in our Solar System, the Earth moves all the time. It has two types of movement, What are they called?
Rotation and Revolution.
What are two of the main features on a Map?
Title, scale, key, orientation, grid of imaginary lines and texts.
What are Meridians?
Imaginary semicircles running in a north-south direction from the North Pole to the South Pole.
How many Planets are there in our solar system? Name them all.
What does the Rotation of the Earth cause?
The Earth spins continually on its own axis and takes 24 hours to complete one rotation. This is what causes day and night.
What is the shape of the Earth called?
Geiod
What are Parallels?
Imaginary circles running in an east-west direction.
What is the name of our Galaxy?
What does the revolution of the Earth cause, and how long does it take the Earth to do a full revolution?
It takes the earth 365 days to move around the sun. This movement causes seasons of the year.
Globes are accurate representation of the Earths ___.?
Shape
What is the purpose of longitude and latitude?
indicates the geographic coordinates of a place, giving it's exact location.
The Earth is the only planet in our solar system where life exists. What conditions make it possible for life on earth?
Temperature, Atmosphere, Water
What are the four seasons on Earth?
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter
Maps are ___ representations of the Earths surface.
Maps are flat representations of the Earths surface.
Most Planets in our solar system have one or more satellites. The Earth only has one satellite, what is it called?
The moon.
What direction does the Earth spin?
The Earth spins in a west to east direction
There are two main types of maps, what are they called?
Topographic Maps and Thematic Maps.